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West Village, California

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the North Coast census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93428. It stands on Santa Rosa Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cambria quadrangle.

West Village within San Luis Obispo County

Then and now

1919 to 1980

The same ground, surveyed 61 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of West Village, surveyed 1980
Topographic sheet of West Village, surveyed 1919

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

111 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of West Village between 1992 and 2020, burning about 318 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined49
Equipment and vehicle use30
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Recreation and ceremony7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Debris and open burning5
Natural4
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Luis Obispo UnitBURTON DR CAMBRIA 71
9 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCentral California DistrictUNNAMED FIRE 1901
3 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSan Luis Obispo UnitMOONSTONE
28 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Luis Obispo UnitNOEL WY SLO_CO
27 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSan Luis Obispo UnitPICO
26 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSan Luis Obispo UnitCREEK
25 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Luis Obispo UnitVILLAGE
23 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSan Luis Obispo UnitTRENTON ST CMB

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Luis Obispo County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of West Village: 13 past producers, 3 producers, 3 occurrences, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Mercury, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Chromium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Phelan ProspectManganeseOccurrence1918
Rogers Ranch OccurrenceChromiumOccurrenceChromite
San Simeon Creek DepositAntimonyPast Producer
San Simeon Creek Shell DepositsCalciumOccurrence
Bianchi QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Cambria PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Rancho San Simeon PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
CambriaMercuryPast Producer1903
Cambria MineMercuryPast Producer
Wittenberg MineMercuryProspect

Every working recorded in San Luis Obispo County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Cambria Pines0.3 miles22
Park Hill0.4 miles22
Happy Hill0.4 miles22
Leimert0.6 miles22
Cambria1.0 miles22
East Village1.1 miles22
Tin City1.2 miles22
Lodge Hill1.5 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1872248. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.